Selected Publications  
Lung nodule (moving) Lung nodule (fixed

Location Registration and Recognition (LRR) for Longitudinal Evaluation of Corresponding Regions in CT Volumes
Michal Sofka and Charles V. Stewart
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), vol. 2, pp. 989-997, New York, NY, 6-10 Sep. 2008.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website]

Vessel landmarks Retinal mosaic

Automated Retinal Image Analysis over the Internet
Chia-Ling Tsai, Benjamin Madore, Matthew Leotta, Michal Sofka, Gehua Yang, Anna Majerovics, Howard L. Tanenbaum, Charles V. Stewart, and Badrinath Roysam
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 480-487, July 2008.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

Brain T1 MRI keypoints Brain T2 MRI keypoints

Keypoint Descriptors for Matching Across Multiple Image Modalities and Non-linear Intensity Variations
Avi Kelman, Michal Sofka, and Charles V. Stewart
Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Image Registration and Fusion (in conjunction with IEEE CVPR), Minneapolis, MN, 23 June 2007.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

Bunny 090 ear-back, initialization Bunny 090 ear-back, CDC aligned

Simultaneous Covariance Driven Correspondence (CDC) and Transformation Estimation in the Expectation Maximization Framework
Michal Sofka, Gehua Yang, and Charles V. Stewart
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, MN, 18-23 June 2007.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

Thin and low contrast vessels LRV tracing

Retinal Vessel Centerline Extraction Using Multiscale Matched Filters, Confidence and Edge Measures
Michal Sofka and Charles V. Stewart
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 1531-1546, Dec. 2006.
[pdf with erratum] [bibtex] [website] [publisher and erratum]

Winter summer registration pair EO IR registration pair

Registration of challenging image pairs: initialization, estimation, and decision
Gehua Yang, Charles V. Stewart, Michal Sofka, and Chia-Ling Tsai
IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 1973-1989, Nov. 2007.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

Retinal mosaic with vessels Lung CT registered

A Correspondence-Based Software Toolkit for Image Registration
Chia-Ling Tsai, Charles V. Stewart, Amitha Perera, Ying-Lin Lee, Gehua Yang, and Michal Sofka
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 3972-3977, 2006.
[pdf] [bibtex] [publisher]

Images with differences Registered images with differences

Automatic robust image registration system: Initialization, estimation, and decision
Gehua Yang, Charles V. Stewart, Michal Sofka, and Chia-Ling Tsai
Proceedings of the IEEE International conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), pp. 23-31, 2006.
[pdf] [bibtex] [website] [publisher]

Carotid MRA Full body MR Angiogram

Feature-Based Composing for 3D MR Angiography Images
Li Zhang, Michal Sofka, and Ulf Schaefer
Invention Disclosure 2004E13782US filed as provisional Patent Application 2004P14413US on August 24, 2004. Patent holder: Siemens Corporate Research.
[bibtex]

Spine MRI Full body MRI

A Validation Scheme For Composing Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI)
Michal Sofka, Li Zhang, and Ulf Schaefer
Invention Disclosure 2004E13778US filed as provisional Patent Application 2004P14418US on August 24, 2004. Patent holder: Siemens Corporate Research.
[bibtex]

Archeological mosaic Segmentation of archeological mosaic

Archeological mosaic image indexing by color-based segmentation and skeleton extraction
Michal Sofka, Rachid Benslimane, Ludovic Macaire, Michael Rudko and Jack-Gérard Postaire
Proceedings of the second IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, pp 327–331, Marrakesh (Marocco), 2002.
[bibtex]

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